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DerDieDas Professor
German articles the easiest way
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German articles the easiest way
15 followers
Are you looking to improve your German grammar? DerDieDas Professor helps you memorise the genders with through multi-sensory encoding: stories, colours, illustrations and sounds all stimulate your brain to remember the right article. Recommended, if you are: - before an exam (A1-B2 level) - attending a German school and need better notes - self-frustrated by imperfect grammar Launched with the most used 800 nouns. Bist du bereit?
Der/die/das is genuinely one of the hardest walls in German for non-native speakers - the problem is real and the personal backstory makes sense as a motivation.
My skepticism is on differentiation. Color-coding by gender (blue=der, red=die, green=das) has been the standard approach in German textbooks for decades, and apps like Duolingo, Anki decks, and Babbel all cover this space with large existing userbases.
The multi-sensory angle (stories + color + sound simultaneously) is interesting in theory - the behavioral science logic that fewer reps are needed when stimulus is more intense. But I'd want to see retention data, not just the theory. Has there been any structured testing on whether users actually retain the articles longer vs. other methods, or is that still ahead?
@galdayan Thanks for the insightful viewpoint and you are exactly right about my current dilemma! I only have "anecdotal evidence" yet about the approach being efficient, but could not yet enough users onboard to carry out a structured and proving texting. The system is already built to allow measurements (ie, repeating tests / checking hit rates progress over a period of time), but need (many) more users to make sense out of that. That's one reason I launched the product here also :)